12 March 2015

I
have been posting my art and photography on products for sale at
Zazzle for a few years now. Using their design creation and
customization tools has become second nature. But as I think back, I
realize how much of a learning process there was and how some
customers may feel intimidated by the tools or may be reluctant to
experiment with them. Here, then, are two Zazzle product customization
user manuals that show how to customize products at Zazzle.

Zazzle
provides two methods for customizing a product: a design template and
a full set of customization tools. A design template is a list of
image layers and text fields which appear only if created by the
designer and which allow a customer to make simple changes to the
design. The full set of customization tools is available via a Customize it! link if the designer has not turned off this
feature. These tools provide numerous ways to add, change, and remove
various aspects of the design.

In
order to keep this post, and the manual pages, to a reasonable
length, I have posted the two manuals to separate pages. The first manual explains how to use a design template; the second one, which is quite lengthy, explains all
of the tools available for full customization. Below are links to the two manuals plus links to all of the sections of the full customization manual.